Box-top.



- Fig. 2 a transverse sectional view ot the top or plan view of the cap, detached.

. to boxes S'iich asareused for tooth'powder or powder, or for any other puipose in which cape of the contents; and the invention con- -In illustrating my invention I have shown neck 3 and top platea. T'e neck'. 3 is' has 'a conical centerand is depressed around ...UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER 11. PERKINS, or oHEsHIRE, CONNECTICUT, AssiGNoR To WATERBUBY MFG. oo.,

. f 0F WATERBURY, coNNnoTicUT, A coRPoRATioN.

Box-Tor.

yTo all whom 'fit may concern:

.Be it known that I, IVALTER H.'IERKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cheshire, in the county of New Haven and and useful Improvement in Box-Tops; and

marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact drawings coiistitiite'pait of this specification, and-represent, in-` Figure 1 a side View of the upper part of the box showing my improved top thereon.

saine on an enlarged scale. 'Fig 3 a top or plan view with the cap removed. Fig. 4 a

This invention relates to an improvement iii box tops, and by the term box as herein. used, I wish to be understood as referring or toilet powder, or in the forni of bottles for containing toilet preparations, either liquid it is desired to provide a top which may be opened to permit the contents to escape, the object being toprovidea suitable top for cans or boxes or bottles which maybe readily closed orop'ened` and which, when closed ivill 'prevent thc escape of the contents, and which when open will permit the ready essists in .a box top having certain details-of construction aswill be hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.

a top L whiclrmay be of any a proved form corresponding to the torino the bodyof a box'or can. This top 2- is u settoform af formed with threads-Sand the top-'plate 4:V

the edges to form anannular groove 7 in which there are perforatlons more or less in number. In other words the top plate-4l is concaved around itsedges and convexed or dome-shaped atfthecenter, Upon the Specification of Letters Patent.

'the contents.

Patented .my 2o, 1909.

Application filed March 23, 1908. Serial No. 422,796.

of the dome 5 and so close the can. To per.

mit the escape of the contents the cap9 will be turned so as to inove outward upon the neck It. thus forming an opening between'the edges 11 of' the cap and the sides of the dome. It, then. the can be inverted the contents will escape through the holes and between the edges ll andthe. domev` the 'inclination ot' this surface directing the How of lVlieiithe cap is screwed down tight the edges 1l are brought into close contact with Vthe dome that ay very.-

tight joint is secured.

I chiiin:-

.its a new article of manufacture. a powder-box top having a'fianged .body formed with :in uprising threaded neck closed by a top plate consisting of a centrally arranged coi-ie extending above the edge ofthe neck and surrounded by an annular groove de# pressed below the said edge of the nec-k formed with perforations; iii combination with a sheet inetal cover having a depending thread d flange and having its top extended ovi the said groove and forming therewith a clearance space and extendec upon the said cover and formed with a cientrally arranged circular discharge-o )erung the edge of which engages with the s oping sides 'of the said cone, whereby any :powder 'that may be caught between the said'cover and the said peforated top plate of the' neckl is prevented from being on the cover and, allowe to fall back into Ythe box to which the to .is applied.

-In testimony Whereo ,I have signed this 'specification in thepresenceof two subscribing witnesses.

. WALTERII.l PERKINS.

Witnesses Louis C. Honaivr,`

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